VMatter Cutlery Expands Product Line

Chef Jade Professional v2.0

By Lorrie Baumann

Superknife returns to the pages of Kitchenware News. And this time, it brought friends.

VMatter’s line of knives has expanded greatly since the days when the company was a guy with a dream and a Kickstarter campaign. VMatter Cutlery’s crowdfunding campaign to finance development of a retail-ready set of kitchen knives finished successfully on Friday, October 18, 2013 with the initial funding raised to launch the knife into the retail market. The line then was a pair of 8-inch chef knives: one with a pale green G10 handle and the other with a stabilized wood handle.

Santoku Black Professional v2.0

Now, the line includes the chef knives, 7-inch Santoku knives, a slicing knife, utility knife and paring knife. All of them feature the unique technology that grants them an ultra-sharp edge on a blade that is stronger than titanium and also corrosion-resistant. These blades transfer no metal residue to food, so it doesn’t leave a metallic taste behind them, and the glass-smooth surface of the blade is so dense that bacterial growth is inhibited. “The real magic of the knife is that it’s much more elastic than steel,” said Blair Dahl, President of VMatter. “It can take abuse in the kitchen.”

Slicing Jade Professional v2.0

The knives are made by injection-molding a molten alloy with a chemical structure that’s more like glass than ordinary metal. Then when the blade comes out of the mold, it has a mirror-like finish and a very accurate shape. Already sharp, the cutting edge receives final finishing and the blade surface is polished to a softer sheen that looks less like a mirror and more like a conventional steel knife. The top edge and the area where it joins the grip are left with that reflective surface, so it still has a distinctive appearance without being too obviously different from an ordinary knife.

Utility Black Professional v2.0

The 8-inch chef knife retails for $249.99 to $399.99. The 7-inch Santoku, an Asian-style chef knife with a thinner blade for delicate cuts and thin slices, retails from $239.99 to $379.99. VMatter’s 9-inch slicing knife leaves no rough edges and allows for the utmost precision. It retails for $239.99 – $379.99. The 5-inch utility knife retails for is $179.99 – $299.99 and is ideal for a variety of food prep tasks, including slicing meats and cheeses and prepping a wide range of everyday foods. Finally, the 4-inch version is ideally suited to the precise work of trimming, peeling and slicing, and it retails for $149.99 – $249.99. For more information, visit www.vmatter.com.

This story was originally published in the January 2015 issue of Kitchenware News, a publication of Oser Communications Group.